burning-ghat
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Noun
burning-ghat (plural burning-ghats)
- (India) A flat area near the top of a river ghat where Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 415:
- Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghât, do thou and the crows settle together.
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